Buying a Captor X soon. What ohm rating? Does it matter?

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Buying a Captor X soon. What ohm rating? Does it matter?

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I was finally able to sell my Gibson Les Paul Classic which means I can finally pickup a Two Notes Captor X. Which ohm rating should I go with? Does it really matter? My amps all have 4, 8, and 16 ohm outputs, but I know some amps don't have a 16 ohm out and I would hate to be limited based on the Captor X should I buy another amp down the road. Am I just thinking too much about it?
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I wouldn't say you're thinking too much. It is just as important as matching your amp to cab ohms I would imagine.

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I went with an 8ohm version because the 2x12's I used to gig with are all 8 ohms.

If you have both 8 ohm and 16 ohm cabs, I would get the 8 ohm Captor as it's safe to run the amp 8 ohms into the captor and then feed it to a 16 ohm cab. It'll be safe but less punch and output from the cab.
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Everything I buy with ohms is 8 ohms. This kinda stems from the 5150 combo just being easier to hook up to an 8 ohm cab since the 16 ohm tap is inside the headshell. So I just kinda stuck with that. But there is a tonal difference, at least with speakers. I would imagine that being similar for these units, but I haven't tried different ohms to know that for sure.
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I don't why, but I didn't even think about my speaker cabinets :facepalm: That just simplifies it. My Jet City 4x12 and my Jet City combo amp speaker all run at 16 Ohm, so 16 Ohm it is!

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fastredponycar wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 5:38 pm I went with an 8ohm version because the 2x12's I used to gig with are all 8 ohms.

If you have both 8 ohm and 16 ohm cabs, I would get the 8 ohm Captor as it's safe to run the amp 8 ohms into the captor and then feed it to a 16 ohm cab. It'll be safe but less punch and output from the cab.
That's good to know, thank you! I was set on getting a 16 ohm because my 4x12 cab but I also have a Roadking combo, which is 8. My intention is to use the captor for recording so cab wouldn't even be hooked up but in the off chance I want to try the attenuator, it's good to know if I go with the 8, I can use for both.
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Go 8 ohm

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If you connect a speaker cabinet to the THRU output, the internal loadbox is disconnected: your amp is directly connected to the speaker cabinet. As a result, the impedance of the speaker cabinet plugged into the THRU output should match the impedance of the amp. In this situation, the impedance of the Captor doesn't matter anymore: for example, you can use the 16 ohms output of your amp and a 16 ohms speaker cabinet in the THRU output, even if the Captor is a 4 or 8 ohms version.


I've found almost every amp has an 8ohm tap, but not every amp has a 16 ohm tap
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Vladimir Putin wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 6:09 pm Go 8 ohm
I've found almost every amp has an 8ohm tap, but not every amp has a 16 ohm tap
This is also a great point. Every Mesa I've owned has not had a 16 ohm tap.
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Yeah I'd go 8 in this case. Right in the middle and fits most amps

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Also why the Captor X?

The regular Captor is like 1/3 the cost and you can just load IRs in your DAW.
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